4640. HYPOTHESES TO A THESEUS AND HIPPOLYTUS? II

with a hypothesis to the lost Hipp. I. The wording of the present papyrus does not seem to be incompatible with the Euripidean Hipp. II, although it shows no overlap with the medieval hypothesis to this play. On the other hand, it has several phrases in sequence in common with P. Mich., and this text has several details that seem to be incompatible with Hipp. II: (i) Thessali[a Thessaly fr. A7, (ii) Hipp]olytou stolen Hippolytus' clothing fr. B3 and ka]lupsamenon veiling oneself fr. B5. (i) It has been plausibly conjectured (Barrett, op. cit. 32, Luppe) that in the first play Theseus was absent in Thessaly, helping Pirithous. (ii) In view of the title of the first play—(Kata)Kalyptomenos The Veiled One (cf. Pollux 9, 50; sch. Theoc. 2, 10)—it seems most natural to interpret stolen and ]lupsamenon as clothing and (un)veiling oneself (see on line 14 in further notes on P. Mich. 6222A below). Even if we could explain ]lupsamenon otherwise (e.g. apoka]lupsamenon revealing one's whole mind—cf. LSJ s.v. apokalypto reveal)—stolen remains problematic.

Thus P. Mich. does seem to be concerned with the content of Hipp. I; and the same can be assumed for the corresponding section of 4640, which overlaps it. From the overlap of the two texts it is possible to determine the line lengths of each, but only within rough limits (see on col. ii). The arrangement of the principal P. Mich. fragments A–C and thus the reconstruction of the play provided by Luppe do not agree with our new text, which shows that Luppe’s fr. C should precede fr. B. See below on col. ii for a reconstruction combining 4640 with P. Mich.

The text and notes have benefited from a draft of the edition by R. Kannicht for TrGF 5 (forthcoming) and comments supplied by Professor Diggle. Citation of other dramatic hypotheses on papyri in the notes is by the name of the play and the relevant papyrus, with line numeration according to the ed. pr. For hypotheses transmitted in medieval manuscripts, reference is to the text and line numeration of the edition of J. Diggle, Euripides I–III (Oxford 1981–94) unless otherwise mentioned. The restorations of the line beginnings in col. i are merely plausible ones, suggested exempli gratia for example, and commensurate with wording of the story elsewhere.

Col. i

(m.1)

(m.2) 38

(m.1) ] undergoing; when to Crete [[η]]
]. generated of children having been introduced into the
] Minotaur he killed and easily
] Daedalus having helped him
] Athenian and of the king's
] daughter Ariadne ] for Theseus struggling with a pious
] having been requested to serve he did not shrink
] perceiving the destruction of the Minotaur
] the danger around Theseus
] the desire of Ariadne